Melting a Rainforest with Napalm

Flamethrowers are dreadful and imposing weapons to behold. However, despite their ability to unleash destruction on a significant scale, especially when dealing with targets hiding in flammable structures, the weapon has almost entirely been eradicated from modern warfare.

Humanitarian concerns and the enormous risks they posed to their operators caused flamethrowers to fall into disuse by most military forces during the 1980s.

Still, one of the most exciting yet little-known flamethrower iterations was the M132 ‘Zippo,’ an armored Self-Propelled Flame Thrower developed by the US military during the 1950s. The device was basically an answer to the question of what would happen if someone combined a flamethrower with an armored combat vehicle.

As footage of the era shows, the result was a spectacular show of devastating force. And as napalm storms were being unleashed in the jungles of Vietnam, the M132 was seen as a rational solution for the war, a mobile and shielded vehicle that could set entire forests ablaze in mere seconds…
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